Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McDonald pointed out that any installment payment proposal for education would have to consider that students are sometimes afraid that by borrowing they commit themselves to immediate repayment. "I would be afraid of a loan program that in effect governed a student's professional planning." McDonald said, advocating that the University maintain in a flexible repayment system based on income tax returns. "We may have to convert some loans to scholarships, after the fact," he added...
...last week Thorneycroft's austere measures (tightened credit, a ceiling on investment) were beginning to take effect. As he had planned, the pulse of the economy beat slower. The London stock market dipped to a three-year low. Bankers advised clients to postpone expansion plans. In some industries production had already begun to sag. Last week Thorneycroft slashed government investment still further by cutting back allocations for nuclear power plants, modernization of railroads and slum clearance...
...Department last week also eased the industry's fear that charges on new financing could not be recovered from the Air Force. While the Government will not specifically pay interest charges on any funds the planemakers borrow, it will revise contracts to allow borrowers a bigger profit, in effect paying them back for interest charges. As matters stood at week's end, the darkening clouds over the U.S. aircraft industry looked far less threatening...
With this aim in mind, Putzi excitedly told Adolf about the hypnotic effect of college cheering sections at U.S. football games and, at the piano, demonstrated the "buoyant beat" of U.S. brass bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step...
Hitler was also a tremendous orator with a droning voice whose hypnotic effect "has never been equaled," and Putzi Hanfstaengl dreamed of becoming the power behind the drone. With a quality of mind that Germans call dummschlau-a combination of cunning and stupidity-he thought he could use the Nazi barbarians to defeat the domestic Communists and Socialists, and then craftily make sure that Hitler's "revolution" would be orderly and beneficial...